Full Route Descriptions for esCarpade 2018!

29 Mar 2018

To see not only the towns we are travelling to but how we are going to getting there these route descriptions will give you further details into the directions we will drive:

Day 1: Bathurst – Parkes – Dubbo

We depart Bathurst after the obligatory lap around Mount Panorama and head out through Ophir and Mullion Creek. We then head due west, skirting north of Molong, bisecting Goobang National Park before dropping into The Dish for lunch.

After departing the “Parkes Radio Telescope” we bisect Goobang further north and weave our way into Dubbo from the south passing the front gates of the Western Plains Zoo.

Day 2: Dubbo – Hermidale – Bourke

After taking the Mitchell from Dubbo to Narromine, we then take to the dirt through Farrendale and Derribong Crossing. After passing the Rabbit Trap Hotel in Albert we then continue through Tottenham and Five Ways and literally zig-zag our way onto Hermidale for lunch.

In the afternoon we drive north through Girilambone and follow the Bogan River to Gongolglon. We then drive north west along the Gongolgon Tarcoon Rd, dropping into Bourke form the North East.

Day 3: Bourke – Glengarry Hilton – Lightning Ridge

We take the Mitchell Highway north out of Bourke taking the West Culgoa Rd towards Collerina. We drop down onto Narran Lake Rd to the south east and follow that virtually all the way to the Glengarry Hilton for lunch.

After a typical eye-opening experience at the Glengarry Hilton we work our way around to the west through Goodooga and hop on the Angledool Rd which drops us into Lighting Ridge from the north.

Day 4: Lightning Ridge

This is a lay day in Lightning Ridge.

Day 5: Lightning Ridge – Baradine – Nyngan

We head back out to the Angledool Rd and follow it east into Collarenebri. We then turn south through the town of Pilliga and Pilliga West State Forest. When we burst out of the scrub we are just 20km north of Baradine, our lunch venue for Day 5.

Following lunch we trek west through Gulargambone and Warren. It’s quite a long arvo drive but we finally arrive in Nyngan some 260km later.

Day 6: Nyngan – Condobolin – West Wyalong

We head south out of Nyngan, crossing over our Day 2 route at Creeper Gate. We pass by Bobadah and continue along Pangee Rd. We then weave our way down toward the Lachlan which we follow into Condobolin for lunch.

The arvo run starts along the Condobolin Forbes Rd which tracks along the Lachlan. We then track south circumnavigating the gold mines, calling through Ungarie before pulling the hand brake on in West Wyalong.

Day 7: West Wyalong – Cootamundra – Wagga Wagga

The final morning heads in a south easterly direction following Brand and then Weedallion Creeks, around Weedallion Mountain into Cootamundra for lunch.

In the afternoon we start south toward Yammatree Station before zigging west and zagging south again crossing the Murrumbidgee River at Mundarlo. We then lob onto the Sturt Highway which follow west into Wagga Wagga for our Grand Finale.

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